MSE Parents Club Part 8

searching_me

csh when i lived in london i knew all the best bargain spot and still now i know how to hunt out a bargain just after jayden i needed new jeans i just popped in to new look and found a pair of flared jeans redued from £25 to £7 so i grabbed them ... i always go out with vouchers and coupons honestly everyone in a queue hates me but if i can knock off 50p i dont care how long it takes to find the right coupon ..

i know im not gonna get the perfect paying job tomorrow and to be honest this is the first time in my 24 year old life im not on any sort of benefits (apart from CHB but everyone gets that) and im proud of that just needto look for a better job so i can save to go back to college to be a TA x

emlou2009

SusanC wrote: »

Whenever I've got glasses, they've always said that the special offers like two for one don't apply with the NHS voucher but they usually have some offer where you pay less than you should so for my recent ones I paid £20 for £85 glasses whereas it should have been £48.80 because the voucher is £36.20.

maybe its just our branch that lets people have the voucher amount off the 241 :think:
i have just realised how little i actually know about my job, its a miracle my customers can see :rotfl:

another lazy morning here, seth slept til 8.30am (in our bed!!) i gave him a bottle and he went straight back off again, so he and OH are still up there snoozing and i got a nice lazy cuppa not completely unpestered though, i appear to have two cats in my dressing gown with me :rolleyes:

oh and reading, i dont do reading i will quite happily read a chapter or two but i'll forget to come back to it after!

SusanC_2

searching_me wrote: »

yer i get that but in about £1100 a month including TC and CHB and i have about £800-900 going out and that usually before food .... honestly if it werent for TC id be better off on benefits (ok dont stone me for saying that but its true) x

That's one reason why they do working tax credit - to make sure people people are better off working. (Although if you're on housing/council tax benefit then it makes little difference because they count the tax credits in the calculation.)

csh_2

searching_me wrote: »

csh when i lived in london i knew all the best bargain spot and still now i know how to hunt out a bargain just after jayden i needed new jeans i just popped in to new look and found a pair of flared jeans redued from £25 to £7 so i grabbed them ... i always go out with vouchers and coupons honestly everyone in a queue hates me but if i can knock off 50p i dont care how long it takes to find the right coupon ..

i know im not gonna get the perfect paying job tomorrow and to be honest this is the first time in my 24 year old life im not on any sort of benefits (apart from CHB but everyone gets that) and im proud of that just needto look for a better job so i can save to go back to college to be a TA x

My OH hates going shopping with me cos he says I'm embarrassing when looking for a bargain. "Oo look at the dirty mark any chance of 10% off???" etc!!

You should be proud of yourself :beer:

SusanC_2

emlou2009 wrote: »

maybe its just our branch that lets people have the voucher amount off the 241 :think:

Since it's a franchise, I guess they all do what they want.

Alice claims her 'puter is broken and needs to go to the shop to be mended. It's only an old keyboard with the cable cut off.

searching_me

SusanC wrote: »

That's one reason why they do working tax credit - to make sure people people are better off working. (Although if you're on housing/council tax benefit then it makes little difference because they count the tax credits in the calculation.)

im dont get any H/C benefit they class me as getting too much now i get CTC for jayden as that basically equals to the benefits i got ... but id rather not go down the benefit route took so long to get off them x

searching_me

csh wrote: »

My OH hates going shopping with me cos he says I'm embarrassing when looking for a bargain. "Oo look at the dirty mark any chance of 10% off???" etc!!

You should be proud of yourself :beer:

i love embarrassing philip to the point were he goes ...... thats it im waiting outside ... always makes me giggle :rotfl:x

searching_me

right i suppose i better clean i did a couple of loads of washing and the currently piled up on my bed :undecided best go sort them ...... back later xxx

SusanC_2

searching_me wrote: »

im dont get any H/C benefit they class me as getting too much now i get CTC for jayden as that basically equals to the benefits i got ... but id rather not go down the benefit route took so long to get off them x

Exactly - that's what I mean about not actually being financially better off. We actually would have qualified once Alice was born for about £1.20 per week because they increase your allowance and they would have counted all of our rent instead of ignoring some of it because we had a second bedroom (which you don't "need" until the day you have a child) but it was just totally not worth it for the amount of hassle involved. (But our council is a bit incompetent.)

r.mac_2

morning. I love to read and try to read every night (depending on how shattered I am!) I like most things, except sci-fi/fantasy. My most hated read was the Lord of the rings trilogy. I read it when I was about 15-16 and I persevered through all three books and at the end announced that they were a bit rubbish :rotfl: Just not my cup of tea. I love a good political biography (okay don't run away on me) but enjoy chick-lit and spy thrillers too

HV due in about half an hour. LO meant to be asleep, but she's woken up so I've left her in her cot for a few more minutes as shes not crying.

better get on ....